The Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT), Humboldt State’s demonstration home for sustainable living, recently sent former co-director, Jeffrey Steuben to accept its award for Best Practices in Student Sustainability Program for the California State University (CSU).
Arcata - Rebecca Menten, a Humboldt State graduate student in the Energy, Environment and Society program, has been awarded a prestigious Switzer Environmental Fellowship worth $15,000.
Arcata - Humboldt State University is helping to meet the nationwide demand for thousands of natural resource professionals, including forestry experts, as baby boomers retire in swelling numbers at both the federal and state levels.
Associate Vice President Mike Reilly has accepted a position as Associate Director with the Council of Presidents in Washington state. His last day at Humboldt State will be Sept. 12.
Arcata – Humboldt State University will host formal ceremonies on Thursday, Aug. 28, to inaugurate its new Veterans Enrollment and Transition Services (V.E.T.S.) program, a major expansion of aid to veterans that has been assembled in partnership with leading veterans’ agencies in the region and statewide.
By the end of fall semester solar panels, signage, and student art will adorn Music Building A (the Old Music Building) thanks to the Humboldt Energy Independence Fund (HEIF), a student funded energy initiative.
Arcata - Humboldt State University is offering an array of 13 courses online for Fall 2008, including AIE 345, American Indians in Higher Education, taught by Suzanne Burcell, Director of American Indian Education and Associate Director of Indian Economic and Community Development.
Arcata – With 20 players returning from last year’s team and a talented group of incoming freshman, Humboldt State head women’s soccer coach Andy Cumbo is ready to welcome back his squad for another season.
Reporters and photographers are invited to a private presentation of the mobile earthquake simulator at the Humboldt County Fair on Friday, August 8, at 10:00 a.m., one hour before the exhibit opens to the public.
Arcata - Eureka’s Discovery Museum will host the public unveiling on Friday, Aug. 8 from noon to 2:00 p.m. of five new simple machine exhibits created by area teachers under the Design Your Future Teaching Institute, part of the North Coast Engineering Academies project housed at Humboldt State University.
Arcata – The Humboldt State University Police Department has received official notification from the Humboldt County Coroner’s Office that HSU senior Nghiep Tuan Huynh, 31, of Westminster died on July 30 at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, where he had been hospitalized since suffering unexplained injuries July 27.
Arcata – Native American youth are discovering their often-lost tribal languages and cultures using the very same global information network that sometimes seems to submerge their traditions in homogenized pop culture. They are also learning how to restore and preserve their heritage with key software programs.
Arcata — Nearly half of the Redwood Coast's uninsured residents are unable to receive needed health care, reports Humboldt State University’s California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP) in its August Research Brief. The report also notes those with Medi-Cal, California’s state run medical assistance program, are more than twice as likely to seek care in an emergency room than those with private insurance.
Walnut Creek – Twenty-eight Humboldt State student-athletes were among the 407 recipients of the 2007-08 California Collegiate Athletic Association All-Academic Awards announced Thursday by CCAA Commissioner Robert J. Hiegert.
Arcata - Summer interns at Humboldt State University give high fives to an intensive computer science design program for bachelor’s candidates. They find it solid ground work for graduate school and the job market.
Humboldt State University is named a “Best Western College” and a “College With A Conscience” in the Princeton Review’s recently released 2009 Best Colleges: Region by Region.
BERKELEY — For the final time before its Olympic debut, the USA women's volleyball squad will make a public appearance stateside when it plays an intrasquad match at 5 p.m. Thursday in Cal's Haas Pavilion.
Arcata - Rob Gunsalus, Vice President of Advancement (external affairs and fundraising) at Humboldt State University, announced today that Elizabeth Hans McCrone, General Manager of KHSU-FM, has submitted her resignation to pursue other endeavors.
Arcata - Humboldt State University’s Office for Economic and Community Development (OECD) has launched a customized research initiative to make regional high growth companies more competitive in national and global markets.
Arcata - Humboldt State University has begun work on accessibility and safety upgrades in the vicinity of Harry Griffith Hall that will require closing B Street to through-traffic from Harpst Street to 17th Street for about eight weeks.
Arcata – The Humboldt State University Library has assembled an exhibit concerning documents from an historic lawsuit over land ownership on the Eureka Waterfront.
Arcata - "The paint was blowing off my roller!"
Humboldt State studio art student Kate Hansen is talking about the winds that buffeted her as she painted the sweeping new mural on the north side of the Natural History Museum that depicts life-size prehistoric mammals and birds.
Seth Powell walks along Southern California’s coast bearing only his backpack. His mission is to travel roughly 1,000 miles on foot to reach Humboldt State University in time for the first day of classes, Aug. 25. Each day he walks 20 miles carrying his pack in the California summer heat. So far, Powell has only ridden public transportation and accepted rides a handful of times. As long as the car was already heading north, he says, but the bulk of the journey will be on foot.
Dr. Lori Dengler, Professor and Chair of Humboldt State University’s Department of Geology and an international authority on tsunami and earthquake hazards and mitigation, has been named 2008 Scholar of the Year.
